Exercise therapy for the failing heart: Harmful or helpful?

ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 9-15

  Brubaker, Peter H ^a   Ozemek, Cemal ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac rehabilitation; Cardiopulmonary exercise testing; Clinical exercise physiology; Endurance exercise training; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649283540     PISSN: 10915397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/FIT.0b013e3181cff539     Document Type: Article

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